Gavin James Wood (born April 1980) is a British programmer

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Gavin James Wood (born April 1980) is a British programmer who is a co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum.[2][3][4][5] In August 2014 he proposed Solidity, a contract-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts.[6] He is the founder and former[7] CTO and Chairman of Parity Technologies who released the Parity Bitcoin technology stack.[8] He also authored the Polkadot paper.[9]

He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, graduated from the University of York with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2002, and completed his PhD in Computer Science at York in 2005, with a thesis entitled "Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio".[10] The thesis directly lead to the Moodbar, a static music visualisation used in several prominent music applications on the Linux desktop.